Tag: vmware

As many of you know, yesterday, vSphere 6.7 was released. There are some awesome updates, and while this isn’t an all-encompassing list of features, I wanted to round up the ones I felt were the most important (especially to my customers). First and foremost, it should be noted that you cannot upgrade from vSphere…

You know nothing, Jon Sn… er VMware Engineer One of the great things about automation is the ability to execute a complex or tedious task in a consistent and repeatable way. And it works every time exactly as it should… Or we live in the real world filled with inconsistencies, imperfect humans writing code, and…

Sharing is caring Resource pools are certainly nothing new in the world of virtualization but they can still come up as a topic of debate on how to be properly managed. Whether you use them or not largely depends on your environment. If your environment is fairly lax on resource over provisioning and utilization then…

In this post I will share my journey to achieving the VMware Certified Implementation Expert 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCIX 6 – DCV) achievement this year with the methods that I used, in the hopes that others will be able to replicate my results. The VCIX is an achievement earned by passing both advanced…

Hi my name is Greg Madro and I am here because someone thought it would be a good idea that I share my innermost thoughts with the world (cough Jeremiah Megie). Clearly Jeremiah never actually listened to me when we worked together or he thought this would be a fun social experiment. Nonetheless I thank…

The vCenter Server Appliance is all the rage right now. No, it’s not a fad, in fact if you want to make sure you can take advantage of all the latest cool features, you should make the jump. The days of Windows and MS SQL are over, at least as far as vSphere management is…

In Part 1 of this series, we did a conceptual walk-through of 3 basic NSX + vRA7 Micro-Segmentation approaches. We compared the pro’s and con’s of each approach, and talked about the situations in which you would be most likely to employ each one. In this article, we’ll actually be doing the hands-on setup for…

Introduction Monitoring, analytics and predictive analysis, are all necessary elements that make up any successful IT Shop World Wide! As environments and business’ move towards 100% uptime and continue to drive forward it’s absolutely critical to know the health of all elements that make up the IT portfolio. There are many different operations framework solutions…